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Ideally, though, you could de-register a post type and have it remove the menu item as well. There is a function to remove menu items [http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard here] but it is a little 'hack-ish'

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Ideally, though, you could de-register a post type and have it remove the menu item as well (specifically for core post types). There is a function to remove menu items [http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard here] but it is a little 'hack-ish'